If he can’t be punished in life there’s always damnatio memoriae.

Appropriate his presidencies to “not worth mentioning” and make that the official way for the government to refer to him. Seize his assets and remove his name from everything associated with him. It might not be necessary to ban mentioning him; he’d already throw a fit if he knew that the United States have officially decided to not remember him.

With the missing f it’s now a law about the transfer of talents of meadows used for the supervision of the labeling of beef.

I’m not sure why they’re supervising that on a meadow but the meadow is clearly very talented.

Not really; mine was eventually too expensive and I only got that model because a) I could get it for cheaper through a leasing arrangement and b) I don’t need to pay for a car.

I must admit, though, that having a belt drive is extremely nice and worth the money. 10/10, top tier bike component.

Eh, Heroic isn’t free of fault either; e.g. when it offered to auto-install REDmod along with CP2077 I couldn’t launch the game because the REDmod it installed was completely broken. I’d say that Steam is slightly less buggy than Heroic overall, both of them being pretty damn solid. Haven’t used Lutris much because, well, Steam and Heroic work well enough.

Would a leaner Steam be nice? Yeah, but reliable, lean cross-platform GUI toolkits aren’t easy to come by.

I read that there are two “waves” of rapid biomolecular aging in the mid-40s and early 60s. Still affects everyone differently and of course a worn-out body will feel that much worse.

In general, though, our bodies start wearing out in our mid-teens, about a decade before we’re even fully grown! High-frequency hearing is one of the first things to suffer. Bodily decline is really a constant companion in our lives; it only becomes noticeable when it starts accelerating.

And don’t feel bad for getting an e-bike. Riding that is still a good workout if you get into the habit of going fast. E-bikes usually have a hard speed cutoff (25 km/h by law where I live); if you want to go faster it’s all you and the motor is just there to give you better acceleration and take the pain out of things like hills or opposing wind.

If you don’t want to go fast, the bike still expects you to put in a certain amount of work. Low-intensity training is still training. Most crucially, getting that bit of assistance might get you to use the bike when you otherwise wouldn’t, turning no exercise into some exercise.

People underestimate the benefits of light exercise. Even brisk walks or relatively leisurely motor-assisted bike rides can absolutely be beneficial if done regularly.

I have this variation:

1. Get hired. Enjoy awesome coworkers and decent perks.
2. Wait, this is a fintech company.
3. Why did I go with a fintech company again? I hate fintech!
4. Fuck it, I’m not quitting after a single year; I’m not gonna nuke my vacation planning two years in a row.
5. Queue Cue endless scrum meetings about badly defined PBIs referencing ancient versions of a poorly defined domain model.

I’ve never seen a sector of IT less organized, more averse to basic best practices, and more fixated on procedural boilerplate than fintech. It’s like ADHD poison and my relationship with it can be summed up with these lines from the Muppet Show theme:

Why do we always come here? I guess we’ll never know.
It’s like some kind of torture to have to watch this show.

Olivia Rodrigo Warned by Feds After Slamming ICE for Using Her Song Without Permission

The music world’s most outspoken political voice, Olivia Rodrigo, has once again clashed with the United States government, leading to a public rebuke from federal authorities.

Rodrigo was reprimanded by the Department of Homeland Security after physically slamming Immigration and Customs Enforcement for using one of her songs without permission.

“We suggest Ms. Rodrigo thank them for their service,” suggested a spokesman after Rodrigo had personally chokeslammed every single ICE employee in 48 states and was currently busy bodying every agent in the nation’s capital. “This reaction is disproportional and, frankly, I’m pissing my pants here,” the spokesman added. “Tasers can’t hold her back, she completely ignores tear gas, and bullets only make her angrier!”

At the time of the interview, Rodrigo was breaking through a cordon of armored vehicles, reactive armor plates popping like party crackers and rolled steel crumpling like tin foil under her fists, once more underlining why she is considered so particularly outspoken.

“Look, you should really be grateful,” the spokesman told Rodrigo directly moments before she shoved his body through a closed third floor window, following up with “we gave you so much exposure”, for which she rightfully let him fall to his demise.

Because they don’t care about morals or the country, they care about winning. If being a fraud is the shortest path to power they’ll be frauds. If being a fascist is the shortest path to power they’ll be fascists.

They can’t be on the wrong side of history when history is written by the winners and they already want to win at any cost.

There another reason for soldering RAM, that being that the signal integrity of DIMMs is too low for use with LPDDR. There a reason why Dell spent R&D money on developing CAMM (and why JEDEC was very happy to refine it into the CAMM2 modules that are entering the market now).

Swappable RAM has its own advantages, such as being able to easily switch suppliers if necessary. I can see modular RAM making a comeback in laptops by means of LPDDR CAMMs.

“Tiefling” looks like a German word, “tief” meaning “deep”. As a matter of fact, that’s exactly where they got the name from, referring to their “lower planes” heritage. And it’s in German because, well, no idea. Maybe Sigil has a significant German minority?

Cooking instructions don’t mesh well with some people. I’m one of them.

Half of the time the instructions are vague (like “golden brown”, which has vastly different definitions based on what you’re cooking) and the measurements are often inexact (“to taste” is completely useless to someone who doesn’t know how the intermediate product is supposed to taste). Plus, you often have to do things during the heating process and if your multitasking isn’t good enough your meal is ruined.

All of this is less of a deal if you have someone with cooking experience in the kitchen. If you don’t, well, good luck.

I consider cooking to be highly stressful even with a recipe. Baking is much better since the measurements tend to be precise to the gram and the heating step happens in isolation.

Assuming that you can cook well enough that your meals are guaranteed to be edible, which is assuming a lot for novices.

The logic board has the CPU built in, that’s true. However, the Framework 16 has a swappable GPU and all models make the ports independent of the logic board through a USB-C-based expansion module system. So that’s even a few parts other manufacturer might consider unreasonable.

(Also, to be fair, I forgot one other thing most laptops let you swap: The WiFi/BT card, if only because it’s cheaper to have that on a swappable module.)

I mean, asterisk. Most laptops let you swap the storage and RAM and many let you swap the battery. Beyond that it usually gets difficult.

Framework let you swap everything, which is a major difference. But of course you pay for that privilege; modular design has its costs.

Still, good on you for getting a cheap upgrade. No need to throw away a perfectly good laptop if you can make it work fast again with a new SSD.

Lol, all the cat wants is that you come along on the away mission. (If you were bridge crew you’d be coming along anyway…)

To be fair, 80% of the campaign consisted of the GM going “yeah, that sounds cool, let’s go with it”. When the players noticed, they took it to the extreme and described how they one-shotted the Borg Collective and insta-ported themselves back home. And got away with it.

Und dieser Kram führt zu sehr komischen religiösen Aussagen.

“Ich bin ein überzeugter Christ und mein Glaube ist mir sehr wichtig. Wie, arme Leute versorgen? Nächstenliebe? Lass diesen Hippie-Scheiß aus deiner Predigt, du linksgrüner Terrorist!”

There’s also the fact that medical devices undergo a ridiculous amount of testing. A friend of mine works for a company that makes medical devices and even getting some non-essential UI changes to production took about two years from when he was finished implementing them. Critical stuff can take longer to get certified.

This is all so that nobody builds the next Therac-25, a radiotherapy device that, due to design flaws, could inadvertantly be turned into a literal death ray.

The upside: We can assume that any duly certified medical device is as safe as is humanly possible. The downside: Those medical devices may as well be made of solid gold as far as the price is concerned.

I hope you can get this sorted without having to spend a ludicrous amount of money. Perhaps the things can be fixed. Probably not, the day things are designed these days, but I’ll still hope.

https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux

It’s also on Flathub and the AUR. And the Snap store, if you use that for some reason.